Our Methodology
It's not an easy testing process but it's important to provide a completely honest breakdown of each website builder and every website tool we review.
How The Testing Process Works
Step 1 - Full Product Testing
Once I have identified what product we will be testing I go ahead and get started. This consists of over 25 key testing areas to exhaust any possibility of missing anything.
Step 2 - Create A Testing Demo Project
I like to run a full project right through each product I'm testing to get a better feel of what this looks like for you in a real life scenario.
Step 3 - Full Customer Service Evaluation
I run this fully seperate from any way I can to get a full evaluation of how the company assists it's customer with issues and questions. It's still part of the 25 key testing areas but I isolate this one when testing.
Step 4 - External Review Thoughts & Ratings
During this step I reach out to groups and testers with no bias opinion to the best of my knowledge to get their full feedback on testing and their experience with it. This data is then scored and weighed in.
Step 5 - Peer Comparison
This step involves running next to a similiar peer product side by side with my 25 key testing points. It's redundant a bit but it let's me get a better feel of how it compare to each peer.
Step 6 - Fine Print & Pricing
Everything always looks fluffy and happy on the surface right? During this step I look for any hidden costs you may run into, or exactly how the pricing works and discounts involved.
Step 7 - Review Outline Created & Review Written
After all the data is compiled a very simple and easy to read outline is created. From here a review is written in a very easy to read user format that I feel covers the data but in a simple way.
Step 8 - Publishing Day
Just as the article is about to be published it is gone over for any revisions or errors that might have happenend. From here it's published and shared to the world and our readers
Step 9 - Regular Updates
We stay up to date after the article is published to provide updates related to that product. As well, feedback from our readers is taken seriously and we utlize that info too.
So, what are some of the features we test?
Customer service is one of the big areas we evaluate. There response time is very important to us and as well how do they help you. We want to see if they take the time to provide the service they might talk about and take pride in on the surface.
Template design and ease of editing. We like to see if the whole process is easy and fair. From having enough templates to select from to how easy it is to actually edit them without it being an issue. This makes your life easier so it's important.
We like to test out the overall performance of the product we are testing. If it's a website builder does it have the ability to pass Google speed tests, or if it's another product does the performance live up to what we are being told.
Our Code Of Conduct
I think it's important for you to understand our rules, practices, and our responsibilities as a review and comparison site:
- 1Product rankings can never be bought or influenced. The opinion from us is all that matters!
- 2Always show the pros and the cons when it comes to website builders and website tools we review.
- 3We always will respect our readers feedback and will always be open to discussin it.
- 4We will never share the key points we test to any companies we review or could review.
- 5We will never share the key points we test to any companies we review or could review.
Reviews By Our Readers
I love sharing reviews with others when I can to show the help we provided. Personally, seeing these is one of the greatest things and lets us know our steps we taking are working and helping others.
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